"Uh, is this the place?"

Lin Bai's phone navigation showed their current location as XX Elementary School, but the building before him was clearly empty—an abandoned building that had been deserted for years. Except for a few cars on the road, there were no signs of human life in the surroundings.

A lazy female voice came through the intercom.

"Yes, yes, you go in first. I'll be there in a while."

Ye Luo was sitting in a nearby car watching Lin Bai.

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Lin Bai took out the commonly used detector and pointed it at the school gate. The green light that illuminated seemed to say, "It's safe here, go ahead in."

As soon as Lin Bai stepped through the school gate, he felt a gust of cold wind. Even though it was only 4 o'clock, why did it feel like it was about to get dark?

Lin Bai put his right foot back outside the school, and the sky instantly returned to brightness.

"Is this right? Is this a D-grade anomaly?"

"Don't worry, the information won't be wrong. This anomalous domain was left by a previous anomaly. Now there are only D-grade anomalies inside. Go quickly, I'll be there soon."

Ye Luo took out a small notebook and wrote down, [A bit timid].

Lin Bai entered the school again. The surroundings instantly fell into dusk. As soon as he entered this anomalous domain, the environment became eerie. Lin Bai knew this was definitely not something a C-grade anomaly could achieve.

'I wonder what grade the previous anomaly here was.'

In the center of the school was a large rock mountain. In this city, all schools liked to buy these rock mountains to decorate their campuses. Lin Bai didn't think much of it at first, until he learned the price of such rock mountains. Then he could only shake his head when he saw them.

'How much better it would be to use that money to upgrade school facilities.'

Past the central rock mountain was a marble building with a clock hanging on it. Two huge supporting pillars framed a bronze door that stood open, but it was covered in dust, and clearly hadn't been maintained for at least a decade.

Pushing open the door, Lin Bai shone his flashlight inside. Various books were scattered on the floor, but these books were all incomplete, each missing a corner or half the book.

Lin Bai picked up one of them and patted it.

"Cough cough cough, so much dust."

'First Grade Chinese Textbook (First Semester)' - He flipped through it. It was the familiar elementary school textbook. But just as Lin Bai was about to put the book down, a chill suddenly swept over him. Lin Bai felt as if a pair of eyes was staring at him intently.

Lin Bai shone his flashlight around but didn't discover any anomalies. However, whenever he made a motion to put the book on the ground, he would instinctively feel a chill.

'What, what's going on?'

Lin Bai went to the dust-covered bookshelf and placed the book on it. This time he didn't feel that chill.

'This anomaly has such requirements? Can't it pick them up itself?'

He approached the stairs facing the main door. The stairs were also incomplete, with the handrails on the side and the steps on the ground all having suffered some damage.

'Was this school bombed? Why is everything so broken?'

There were 3 classrooms on each side of the second floor, arranged from classes 1 to 6. If there was no surprise, the second floor should be for second grade, the third floor for third grade, and so on.

Lin Bai pushed open a classroom door and walked in. The classroom was also a mess, with books scattered and dust rising, but strangely, the chairs and desks were all neatly arranged, as if someone was still having class.

Lin Bai shone his flashlight, searching for items around. There was a pink hairpin on the ground with a sticky note on it. Lin Bai picked it up and read:

"This is the hairpin mom gave me."

Lin Bai put the hairpin in his pants pocket. Just then, at 5 o'clock, the end-of-class bell rang in this anomalous domain!

"Hello, sister, can you give me back my hairpin?"

A little girl in a pink dress stretched out her hand toward Lin Bai.

"Oh, okay."

Lin Bai gave her the hairpin, and then suddenly realized something was wrong. When did the little girl appear, and how could she seem to walk through walls!

"Do you attend class here?"

"Yes, what are you here for, sister?"

"Wait, what did you call me?"

"Sister, of course."

Lin Bai took out his phone and checked his face. It was Lin Bai, no mistake.

"Shouldn't you call me brother?"

"Sister is sister, what brother?" The little girl anomaly replied with a certain tone.

Lin Bai took out the intercom and asked Ye Luo:

"I found that D-grade anomaly. What's next? What should we do?"

"That one? When did I say there was only one?"

"Huh?"

Just as Lin Bai was surprised, countless children with backpacks passed through the walls. They were sometimes playful, sometimes running, and some mischievous ones would suddenly reveal their bizarre faces in front of Lin Bai.

"Holy shit, so many?" Lin Bai exclaimed in shock.

"It should be just after class now. Your task is to kill the invading anomaly inside, don't mind those children."

"The invading one?"

Lin Bai found the little girl from earlier.

"Has a stranger come to your school?"

"How did you know, sister? A bad person came!"

"Can you take me to find him?"

"Sure, sure, but I need to ask my teacher first."

The little girl took Lin Bai's hand and led him to the classroom. Unlike the classroom from earlier, the chairs were all placed on the desks, and the books on the floor were neatly arranged. A middle-aged woman was wiping the blackboard at the podium.

"Teacher, can I take her to find the bad uncle?"

The teacher looked Lin Bai up and down, then nodded. Lin Bai felt a familiar chill, the same as when he was about to discard the book earlier, but it quickly disappeared.

"Yes, you may."

"Okay, goodbye teacher."

The little girl led Lin Bai out of the teaching building to the school playground.

"What does that bad uncle do?" Lin Bai probed for information.

"He catches children. If he catches you, you'll be eaten!"

A corpulent humanoid anomaly was constantly running after the surrounding children, but due to his large size, he couldn't catch those agile kids.

"Children, don't run away, come to uncle!"

"Hehehehehe!"

The man's face had a lecherous smile, targeting little ones. Lin Bai held his forehead and picked up the intercom.

"Is it this fat guy?"

"Yes, I'm at the school gate now. If you can handle it, just kill him. He's almost at C-grade."

On Ye Luo's phone, a video of Lin Bai's surroundings was playing. The phone had an eye on it, unlike usual, and was currently covered with various patterns.

Lin Bai took out his gun and shot at the man. The moment the man received the attack, he was frozen in place. Lin Bai rushed up and kicked him. His stomach rippled like waves, absorbing the damage, and then he looked at the bullet and roared at Lin Bai:

"The bullet needs to be the smallest size!"